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Federal investigators said they have found evidence of a missing fan blade in the engine of Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 that made an emergency landing Tuesday, April 17 in Philadelphia. The Southwest Boeing 737-700 was flying from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Dallas when its left engine exploded, shattering a window and fatally injuring passenger Jennifer Riordan, a 43-year-old mother of two and Wells Fargo executive from Albuquerque. Speaking at a press conference Tuesday, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Robert Sumwalt said that someone found a Southwest Airlines engine cowling, the outer covering of the engine, on the ground ... Read More

One Southwest Airlines passenger suffered fatal injuries when one of the plane’s engines exploded Tuesday, shattering a window and part of the plane’s fuselage. The Southwest Airlines flight had departed from New York’s LaGuardia Airport about 30 minutes before the engine failure. The incident forced the plane with 148 people aboard to make an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport. Seven other people were reportedly injured on the flight. According to Bloomberg, “the dead passenger was not identified but other passengers reported a woman being severely injured during the flight receiving aid from other passengers in a chaotic and bloody ... Read More

The 2016 Honda Civics have not been on the roadways long, but Honda already issued a stop sale and safety recall notice for the vehicles equipped with the 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. According to Autoblog, the recalled Civics can apparently suffer from engine failure early on in their use. The 1.5-liter turbocharged version of the Civic is unaffected by the recall notice. “While the specific details of this action are still being determined, American Honda has provided preliminary information to the [National Highway Traffic Administration] NHTSA and intends to provide more details in a formal notification to NHTSA on Friday, February 5,” ... Read More

Saturday afternoon, an apparent engine malfunction caused a small plane from Danbury, Conn., to make an emergency landing on the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx, N.Y. Formally registered to Michael Schwartz of New York, the four-seat, single-engine 1966 Piper PA plane was returning its three passengers from a tour of the Statute of Liberty when problems occurred. Air traffic control audio revealed that the engine had lost power while in flight, initiating the pilot’s emergency landing. Miguel Lopez, a supervisor with the Department of Transportation, said, “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, when the plane hit the ground it ... Read More

Aviation experts say that the odds of a person winning the lottery are better than being in two airplane crashes, but that is what happened to Austin Hatch, 16, and his father Dr. Stephen Hatch, a pain specialist, of Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 2003, Austin was 8 years old when he and his family were flying home to Fort Wayne from their vacation cabin on Walloon Lake in Michigan’s peninsula. The family plane was making an emergency landing in Uniondale, Indiana, with Austin riding shotgun next to his dad while holding a flashlight on the vertical speed indicator to help ... Read More

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